Man — I thought that a change in weather to cooler temperatures would give us a rain. Well I guess I got mine.

I got one of the two-inch rains on one afternoon and the next day I was over at the Walmart parking lot when one of the six-inch rains came by.

As the rain hit the hot pavement, steam came up, and the raindrops that were about six inches apart would dry up and the drop disappeared into the air, just like the rain drops from the rain that produced drops two inches apart the day earlier. It has cooled off and 79 degree nights feel cool.

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